17th Century 65

The early modern period was not only an age of artistic and cultural flourishing but also one of intense diplomatic encounters across religious and cultural boundaries. Above all, it was a time that……続きを見る

Il testo ripercorre i trecento anni della dinastia dei Romanov attraverso grandi figure, zar e zarine che hanno portato l’impero a brillare nello scenario europeo. Pietro il Grande, con la passione ……続きを見る

This collection of nine essays presents new research exploring the significance and forms of labour involved in food production across the early modern world from c. 1500 to 1800. Ranging from the N……続きを見る

Im England des 17. Jahrhunderts wird ein fragiles Kind, das »zu klein« geboren wurde, durch Disziplin und Obsession zu dem Mann, der die Regeln des Himmels und der Erde neu schreibt. Dieses Buch dur……続きを見る

Discover the extraordinary life of Johannes Kepler, the visionary astronomer and mathematician who transformed humanity's understanding of the universe. Living during an age of religious conflict, s……続きを見る

In einem von Kriegen, Zensur und wissenschaftlichem Umbruch zerrissenen Europa beschloss René Descartes, allem zu misstrauen, um eine Wahrheit zu finden, die nicht zerstört werden konnte. Dieses Buc……続きを見る

Ein Wunderkind im Frankreich des 17. Jahrhunderts lernt nur zu schnell, dass Intelligenz nicht ausreicht zum Leben. Blaise Pascal erfindet, argumentiert und verwandelt die Wissenschaft, während sein……続きを見る

Originally published in 1976, this book traces the development of the early parliamentary parties from the Revolution of 1688-9 to the fall of Walpole. The author maintains that the Tory and Whig pa……続きを見る

This book examines one of the main centres of the European Reformation, the Swiss city of Zurich, to explore the impact of the reformatory processes on all aspects of everyday life. It looks at how,……続きを見る

This book presents Herman Hugo's The Siege of Breda (1626) in a modern-spelling edition of Henry Gage's 1627 English translation, introduced and contextualised by Paul Arblaster. Hugo's text is a cl……続きを見る

De l’obscurité des forêts reculées aux tribunaux impitoyables des inquisiteurs, une peur panique a embrasé les consciences des époques anciennes. Des femmes et des hommes, accusés d’avoir scellé un ……続きを見る

SOULEVEZ LE VOILE SUR LES MYSTÈRES ET LES SECRETS LES PLUS INSOLITES DE LA ROYAUTÉ. Derrière l’éclat officiel des portraits de cour, la solennité des actes d’État et les récits lissés des manuels sc……続きを見る

The life of politician and diarist Samuel Pepys spanned seven decades, meaning he bore witness to many groundbreaking events such as the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and the Glorious Revoluti……続きを見る

Now in a third edition, this seminal text has been updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and ……続きを見る

The Enlightenment, a broad and complex phenomenon, is a vital part of the history of European culture. It shaped intellectual life from the middle of the seventeenth century until the early nineteen……続きを見る

Au XVIIe siècle, dans une Europe déchirée par les guerres et les tensions religieuses, la famille de Robaulx tente de préserver son honneur et ses terres de l’Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse. Tandis que le mo……続きを見る

The Bourbons, The Napoleonic Crisis & The Loss of Empire explores one of the most dramatic and transformative periods in Spanish history. From the rise of the Bourbon dynasty and the reforms of enli……続きを見る

This extraordinary document, considered one of the most important manuals ever compiled on witchcraft, offers striking insight into the early seventeenth-century mind and society's attempts to cope ……続きを見る

The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880 gives an inside look at the workings of a scholarly dynasty: the roles played by wives, its training methods for children, their habits of correspondence, ……続きを見る

Elizabethan England was an age of danger, ambition, and extraordinary transformation. When Elizabeth I took the throne in 1558, she inherited a divided kingdom threatened by religious conflict, fore……続きを見る

The Stuart age began with the peaceful accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne as James I, creating the historic Union of the Crowns. Yet beneath the promise of unity lay deep religi……続きを見る

Revolution, Union, and the Birth of Great Britain explores the dramatic transformation of the British Isles from the reign of James II to the defeat of the Jacobite cause at Culloden. Beginning with……続きを見る

England in the seventeenth century was a kingdom pushed to the edge of collapse. Political distrust, religious division, and a fierce struggle over the limits of royal authority transformed a consti……続きを見る

This groundbreaking volume explores two early and opposing Spanish medical perspectives on chocolate and other New World substances. In the early 1600s, doctors Bartolomé Marradón and Antonio Colmen……続きを見る

Pas de loi, pas de maître, pas de pitié : découvrez le récit sans fard des véritables seigneurs de l’océan. Bien loin des légendes romantiques et des clichés du cinéma, les flibustiers, boucaniers e……続きを見る

Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great dem……続きを見る

Willem Lodewijk graaf van Nassau-Dillenburg is in de Nederlandse geschiedenis bekend gebleven als de vader van Friesland en de trouwe strijdmakker van zijn neef en zwager prins Maurits. Dit is op zi……続きを見る

Seit 250 Jahren werden die Vereinigten Staaten von Revolutionen, Konflikten, Erfindungen, Expansion und ständiger Erneuerung geprägt. Von einer Gruppe dreizehn Kolonien, die sich 1776 vom Weltreich ……続きを見る

An examination of how the unsustainable consumption of meat in seventeenth-century Rome both symbolized the extent of papal power and sparked the outbreak of civil war In 1644 four norcini or pork b……続きを見る